Before the healthcare price transparency event in Washington, D.C., this past Monday, October 5, little was known about the full agenda or what would be covered. I went in blind...

Since 1978, federal agencies have been required by Executive Orders to publish agendas of regulatory and deregulatory activities twice each year. The federal government publishes...

Last week, we hosted a webinar exploring the proposed CMS “Interoperability Standards and Prior Authorization for Drugs” rule (CMS-0062-P) and its potential impact on payers,...

The health IT world converged—both in person and virtually—on April 9, 2026, for a major milestone in the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem Pledge initiative. Launched in July 2025 at the...

I recently finalized our last Interoperability Outlook report of the year for subscribers, and it gave me a moment to step back and reflect on what I’ve observed after producing...

Fee-for-service was never designed for what chronic care requires. It rewards transactions rather than the long arc of behavior change, continuous monitoring, or coordinated...

In our earlier blog, we detailed the recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Ecosystem Pledge Program, which aims to create a patient-centric health data...

Enforcement of information blocking has moved from concept to practice. On September 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press release signaled an...

Level-setting: What the Pledge Program Is—and Isn’t When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) unveiled the Health Tech Ecosystem pledge initiatives, the announcement...

In our May 2025 HIT Perspectives article, we unpacked the decade-long journey of healthcare price transparency and why most stakeholders would agree we’re still not where we need...